Towel-cabinet.



UNITED STAT nnwaiinivi. MIKKELSEN, or CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TOWEL-CABINET.

Application inea May' 12, 1911. serial No. eaaeci.

Improvement in Towel-Cabinets, and declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it 10, pertains to make and use the same, reference' being hadto the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

A piece of .furniture found in almost every oiiice is a cabinet for holding towels, a brush and comb and perhaps other toilet articles. Towels are usually supplied once a week in sulicient .quantities to last throughout the entire week, the fresh towels being placed in the cabinet by the distributer. The clean towels are therefore taken care of in such a way that their presence is not objectionable. It is common in cabinets of this kind to provide twocompartments, one for the clean towels and one for the soiled towels so that if the user places the soiled towels in the proper compartment they will be concealed when the door ofthe cabinet is closed. There is an objection to all of the cabinets of which I .am aware in that the soiled towels, if placed in their proper compartment in the damp conditionv which necessarily follows from the use .of

the same become more or less sour and even moldy so that the cabinet soon has a disagreeable odor.

The object of my invention is to produce a cabinetin which there will be ample room.V for soiled towels, in which the soiled towels will be eifectually concealed when the door of thecabinet is closed and in which sourne'ss or mold is prevented.

A vfurther object of my invention is to produce a cabinet having a ventilated chamber for soiled towels, so arranged that the 45. towels may be easily `inserted and removed.

The various features of novelty whereby my invention is' characterized will hereinafter be pointed out with particularity in the'claim; but, for a full understanding of my invention and of -its objects and advanl tages, reference may be had to the following detailed. description taken 'in connection with the accompanying drawing, wherein: Figure l is a perspective view 'of a cabinet 56 arranged in accordance with a preferred form of my invention, the door of the cabinet Specifcatonr'of Letters Patent.

Patented (Pct. 19, 1915-.

mirrored door 2 at the front, and having its I interior divided in any suitable way for the receptionof Vthe articles which it is desired to keep in the cabinet.' In accordance. with my invention, I form in the top'of the cabinet a compartment 3 large enough to contain all of the soiled towels which accumulate between successive collections. `I form an opening 4 in the top of the compartmentv into which the soiled towels may be inserted and through which they may be removed. It will be seen that if the towels 4are properly deposited in the compartment so as not to .project out of the holein the top, they will be entirely concealed. Furthermore, even when the door of the cabinet is closed, the soiled towel compartment is open to the surrounding atmosphere and therefore the evaporating moisture in the towels is free to pass up out of the cabinet, thus preventing moisture from collecting in the interior and producing sourness and mold not only in the towels but also-in the cabinet. When it isl desired to remove the soiled towels it is only necessary to reach in at the top and lift them out of the opening through which they were introduced.

If it is desired to make yaccess to the soiled towel compartment somewhat easier, soas to make itv unnecessary to reach above the cabinetl when soiled'towels "are to be deposited the front wall 5 of the soiled towel compartment may be provided with an opening 6 which registers with the opening 4 in the top of the'compartment. IVhen the door is closed the opening 6 is covered up thereby and therefore the cabinet presents thesame appearance with the door closed as is the case where the opening in the front o f the soiled towel compartment is omitted. However, it is somewhat easier to introduce the soiled towels intocompartment and remove them therefrom where the opening is formed partially'in the top wall and partially in the'front wall of the compartment.

While I have illustra-ted and described only a' single preferred form of my invention, I do not desire to be limited to the particular structural details thus illustrated und described; but intend to cover all forms und arrangements which fall within the terms employed in the definitions of my invention constituting the appended claim.

I claim:

A towel cabinet having a, soiled-towel compartment in the uppermost portion thereof comprising two sides, a back conneet-.ed-to the rear portions lof the sidesyaJ bottom extending from the back toward the plane of the front edges of the sides and y @epics of this patent may be obtained for and having its frontedge connected to the upper edge of said front pert, said front 4 edge having a recess therein corresponding' to the4 recess inthe upper edge of saidA front part, said two recesses together-.forming en aperture in the angle formed by said front and Ltop parts, and a doorhingedly connected to e part of the cabinet end normally extending across the recess .in said front part end to the' plane. of said top part.

In testiinonjT whereof, 'l sign this specification in the presence of two witnesses.

l EDWARD M. MIKKELSEN.

Witnesses:

- WVM. F.. FREDENREXOH,

RUBY V, BRYDGES.

gexoentseaeh, by addressing the Commissioner of @atente Weshington. 

